Week 7

Week 7 already!  I know my students are excited for this semester to be over and I remember feeling the same way... but this group of students has really touched my heart in such a short time!  They are so appreciative, and while I have worked hard to make the lessons relevant and meaningful, it amazes me how much they notice the effort and take the time to tell me!

So while they are rejoicing and frantically putting together the last details on their lesson plans, I am feeling bittersweet about the inevitable ending.  Many of them are finalizing their college careers. I hope some day our paths cross again somewhere in the world of education.

Bio Poem

Terri
Cheerful, Inquisitive, Adaptive, Content
Mother of Ashley, Wife to Bob, daughter to Shirley
Lover of sunsets, the beach, books.
Who feels chocolate should be at the bottom of the food pyramid, who believes books should be free, and that music be a core subject,
Who fears losing friends, memories and trivia games
Accomplished Doctor of Education, writer of books, teacher
Who would like to go to cooking school in Italy, swim around the Greek Islands, have hot chocolate with my grandpa,
Resident of New Town, Saint Charles, Missouri,
Steffes

Week 6

This week we are starting to get into the flow of our work.  We spent several minutes talking about "Flow" and "getting into the groove."  You know when you are there as time flies by.  We also did a lot of reading strategies back to back in a single lesson plan.  Tonight we did a TPRC (Think, Predict, Read and Connect) followed by a GMA followed by a VSS (Vocabulary Self Collection Strategy).  Afterwards I shared Anticipation Guides, Questioning the Author, Reading Response Groups, and then writing across the curriculum with double entry journals, learning logs, written conversation, writing from our maps, KWLs and others.  Katie, Kaci and Stacy all shared one of their lesson plans.  We learned that the rubric says we need to include 10 questions from Bloom's taxonomy in our lesson plans.  I then assigned them two blog entries, one being take aways from tonight's lesson and a bio poem, which I cannot wait to read!